Title	Charlotte, North Carolina - United States Post Office
Subject	Trade Street (Charlotte, N.C.) Post office buildings--North Carolina--Charlotte Shipp, William Ewen, 1861-1898--Monuments Shipp Monument (Charlotte, N.C.) Soldiers' monuments--North Carolina--Charlotte United States--History--Spanish American War, 1898--Monuments United States Post Office (Charlotte, N.C.)
Subject Personal	Shipp, William Ewen, 1861-1898
Description	Black and white view of 401 West Trade Street and the United States Post Office in Charlotte, NC and the Shipp Monument. The monument was an obelisk of Winnsboro granite erected in honor of Charlottean, Lt. William Ewen Shipp (1861-98) who was killed in the Battle of Santiago in the Spanish-American War. A Spanish cannon can be seen in front of the Post Office. The cannon was captured by Americans in the Spanish-American War. The federal post office building was completed in 1891. It was brick with terra cotta and white stone trim and had an 84-foot tower. Inside were marble columns, marble and tile floors with polished oak woodwork and blue marble baseboards along the corridors. The first floor served as a post office and the second floor housed a federal courtroom, and court and revenue offices. It was demolished in 1915 for a more modern facility to be built. Post card published by Stone & Barringer Co., and Mill News Print, Charlotte.
Object Type	Still Image
Subject - Location	Charlotte (N.C.) Mecklenburg County (N.C.)
Date of material	1899-1979
Publisher	Charlotte, N.C.: J. Murrey Atkins Library University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Genre	Picture postcards
Format	image/tiff
Identifier	mb121_2_4_075f
Source	Mary Boyer Collection. J. Murrey Atkins Library University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Relation	Forms part of: Mary Boyer Collection, 1899 - 1979
Language	eng
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Category	Public buildings, Courthouses, City Hall
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